Her letter touches on seven points in particular. She asks for further detail on the proposals for the new scheme administrators and reiterates opposition to a profit-making private firm running the new scheme.

She has asked for more information on the evidence that will be needed to show a causal link between a beneficiary’s infection and their death. However, ideally she asks that this should not be factor in entitlement for these payments.

In the debate the Minister stated that ‘the aim of the support ambien drug scheme is that no one will be worse off’. Diana has asked for a guarantee that no one will be worse off under the new scheme.

If there is underspend in any year of the five-year period this should be carried over to the following year. The letter asks what will happen at the end of the five-year period and how money spent this will be tracked transparently by government.

Additionally, the letter raises the situation of people infected with over viruses, passporting to DWP benefits, the money from the sale of the Government’s stake in Plasma Resources UK and the Haemophilia Society’s analysis of the support budget.

Jefferson Courtney

5 Comments

Jbritton1 year ago29th November 2016

People contaminated by blood transfusions need the same support even though they haven’t got the Haemophillia Soceity fighting their cause . Therefore in the interests of all victims CBC should be involved in all negotiations and policy amendments in my view .

As an English Haemophiliac infected with both HIV and HCV I will be £7000 per year ” worse off ” than my Scottish peers and more importantly my wife will be £25000 a year “worse off ” than a Scottish widow when I die. How do you justify that !

A Very good letter, but being under oath will not stop these people lying about what happened and why over 2000 people are now dead as a direct result of poisoning by the NHS, and those who have continued to hide the truth.